Nut-lock



(No Model.)

NUT LOCK.

No. 379,686. Patented Mar. 20, 1888.

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JOHN BAKER OROSSLEY, OF CLAY CENTRE, KANSAS.

NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,686, dated March 20, 1888.

Application filed June 2 1887. Serial No. 242,781. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN BAKER CRossLEY, of Clay Centre, in the county of Clay and State of Kansas, have invented new and Improved Railroad-Bail Tie, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in railroad-rail ties and has for its object to pro Vide a safe tie, readily applied and used in connection with the ordinary fish-plates without changing the latter, and wherein the tie will be simple and cheap in construction, and readily removed by proper parties understanding its construction.

The invention consists in the construction and operation of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a section of rail having my improvement attached, andv Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of the application of a modification, and Fig. 4 is an end view thereof. Fig. 5 is an enlarged side elevation of the applied tie, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a detail plan of the angle-plate employed, the tie-bar being in section; and Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the said tie-bar.

In carrying outthe inventioman angle-plate, A, of thin metal, is employed, the length of which is about equal to the length of the fish-plate A, the vertical portion c being ofa height nearly corresponding to the distance intervening the upper face of the rail-base and the under surface of the tread, and provided with four or more apertures, according to the number of bolts used in attaching the fishplate.

The horizontal portion a of angle-plate A is provided with a downwardly extending longitudinal flange, I), integral with the outer edge, adapted to rest upon the upper surface of the railbase at the outer edge, the said flange being of a width about equal to the angle ofinclination of the said rail-base.

The horizontal portion of the plate A is rereeessed centrally of the outer edge, as at b, to admit of the usual spikes being made to engage the abutting ends of the rails, as shown in Fig. 1, and centrally at each end of the said horizontal arm of the plate transverse elongated apertures Z) are produced.

In the application the vertical portion of the plate is either made to intervene the fish-plate and the web of the rail, or made to abut against the outer surface of the fish-plate,preferablythe latter, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, being secured in position, in either case, by the usual bolts, 0. A tie-liar, D, is now provided, made of either wood or metal, of a length equal to the length of the angle-plate. One end of the bar D, upon the under side, is fitted with a fixed stud, d, having a longitudinal lip, d,-integral with the outer side, as shown in Fig. 7. The opposite end of the bar D, upon the under side, is provided with a transverse recess, 6, and a vertical aperture leading into said recess. A pin, E, is made to slide in the aforesaid aperture, provided at the bottom with a lip, e, similar to the lip upon the stud, and a winged capped top, 6 whereby the said pin is manipulated.

The angle-plate having been fixed as aforesaid, the stud d of the bar D is entered in one elongated aperture b and the bar is then swung around parallel with the plate A, or the fish-plate, toa bearing upon the horizontal portion of the angle-plate and the under edge of the several fastening-bolts, the pin E having previously been raised upward to bring the lip a into the recess 6, to permit that end of the tie-bar passing readily upon the plate A.

To complete the attachment, the lip of the pin E having entered the registering aperture 1), the said pin is turned so that the attached lip will engage one wall of the aforesaid aperture.

When the plate A is placed to the rear of the fish-plate it may be made of thinner material than when placed outsidesuch as sheetiron or heavytin. When thin metal is employed the flange b is omitted, and the metal instead is bent down at the ends longitudinally at right angles and in under the horizon tal portion of the plate at an angle similar to the inclination of the rail-base, whereby the bearing h is found, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a nut-lock, the combination, with a railroad-rail and a fishplate, of a second plate posed betwen the rail and the fish-plate, and having its lower edge provided with a horiits horizontal portion or arm resting upon the zontal portion resting upon the rail-base, and rail-base, and the lock or tie bar interposed the look or tie bar interposed between the sebetween said horizontal portion or arm of the I 5 curing bolt nuts and said horizontal portion of angle-plate and the securing-bolt nuts and desaid second plate and detachably connected to tachably connected to said horizontal arm, subsaid horizontal portion, substantially as and stantially as and for the purpose set forth. for the purpose set forth. JOHN BAKERGROSSLEY.

2. In a nut-look, the combination, with a Witnesses: railroad-rail and the fish-plate, of an angle- D. L. GRossLEY, plate having its vertical or main portion inter- 1 JAMES C. MOCURDY. 

